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Old 09-20-2005, 01:09 PM   #1
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Default Scientists print living, beating heart cells

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Scientists print living, beating heart cells


Josh Brooks, 20/09/2005 US scientists have made a massive step towards printing live organs, with the successful production of a tiny section of a chicken’s heart that beats by itself.

In April, biologists at the University of Missouri-Columbia printed a 3mm square sheet of chicken heart cells that was just under 0.5mm thick. The team found that four days after the printing, the cells were beating in time with each other.

"It's just amazing. The system self-organises itself into a single structure which beats in synchrony," Gabor Forgacs, the professor leading the research, told the Columbia Daily Tribune.

The breakthrough, revealed as the team received a £2.8m ($5m) grant for the research, follows similar research at Manchester University.

A team there has joined up with Xaar in an attempt to print three dimensional organ tissue, which could be used for skin grafts and organ transplants.
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Old 09-21-2005, 06:30 AM   #2
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Absolutely amazing!

   
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Old 09-21-2005, 07:06 AM   #3
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The technology behind modern ink-jet printers (which is, I believe, what's being used in these medical experiments) is absolutely amazing. The control over particle size and precision of placement will enable all sorts of things beyond putting ink on paper, I suspect.
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Old 09-28-2005, 01:18 PM   #4
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Can't wait for the price of an HP Cell-Jet™ to come down. Then I can just print a kid.
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Old 09-28-2005, 03:02 PM   #5
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mmmmmmmm - so u really want one of them
not a blonde then :-)
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Old 09-28-2005, 03:07 PM   #6
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well, I am engaged. I figure it's a great way to save her 9 months of pregnancy, and me 9 months of dealing with it. Besiades, blondes are 10 for a buck.
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